Despacio’s mission is to keep doing what it has been doing for the past decade: consistently exploring new models of artistic and curatorial practice while remaining a driving force in the continued development of Central America’s artistic voice.

No Glory, No Story

The rules are simple. Artists play a game of soccer against art collectors. If the collectors win, they each get a work of art for free. If they lose, they each have to buy a work from an artist. A competitive game, fraught with tensions from the fragile relationship that binds artists and collectors in the same field. Two horny bedfellows who need one other but pretend like they don’t. And, in the distance, the curators, doing their best to judge a match they’ve already rigged.